I haven't had much luck with understanding after 8 years, fluently speaking the most widely spoken African autochthonous language, and having obtained my masters at an African university. I'm mostly perceived as a source of profit or gain, at best, oftentimes through deception, and if I don't fulfill those expectations, then I am abandoned in the best circumstances, and taken advantage of, financially exploited, and physically assaulted at worse. I used to be passionate about diplomacy and cultural understanding, but no more. In short, Africans don't want any foreigners here unless they're carrying lots of money. All the best.. ✊🏻
@TheOtherMwalimu, thank you very much for your message. Eight years sounds like a very long time, but, unfortunately, it takes a very long time to understand a culture, and even then, there will always be things one doesn't fully understand. If you merely live in a culture, ten years can go by and you are still far from understanding what you are seeing, hearing and experiencing around you. Culture experts say that a culture is like an iceberg. What you see and hear is only the tip, but the bulk of the iceberg lies beneath the surface. It took me about twenty years of living with Americans before I was confident enough to write about Americans as you can see in the book "Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences." I was not just living among the Americans but teaching their college kids. As a teacher, I interact with students all the time, and am very much in the community, interacting with parents, and so on. Yet it was only after about twenty years that I felt I could write about Americans. It takes years, many years, a lifetime, actually. Go to the links below my video and you will read the testimony of the Black American woman who lives in Tanzania. She is writing after reading my book, saying that if she had read it earlier, she would have avoided frustrations she experienced in Tanzanian culture for fourteen years. Just imagine, she had been there fourteen years, and did not understand certain things in the culture. I have encountered Africans here in the USA who, upon reading my work, regret that they had not read it earlier. For example, an Ethiopian woman who had lived in the USA for twenty years told me that. The issues you raise, such as how you are perceived and treated by Africans, are exactly the kind of issues I address in the resources I have created. Check out the links below the video and read the testimonies. If you are patient and keep studying the culture, you will change your mind about Africans. You may think that all they want is your money, but that is only what you see on the surface. The real story lies under the surface, and my joy as a cultural consultant is helping people understand that.
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I haven't had much luck with understanding after 8 years, fluently speaking the most widely spoken African autochthonous language, and having obtained my masters at an African university. I'm mostly perceived as a source of profit or gain, at best, oftentimes through deception, and if I don't fulfill those expectations, then I am abandoned in the best circumstances, and taken advantage of, financially exploited, and physically assaulted at worse. I used to be passionate about diplomacy and cultural understanding, but no more. In short, Africans don't want any foreigners here unless they're carrying lots of money. All the best.. ✊🏻
@TheOtherMwalimu, thank you very much for your message. Eight years sounds like a very long time, but, unfortunately, it takes a very long time to understand a culture, and even then, there will always be things one doesn't fully understand. If you merely live in a culture, ten years can go by and you are still far from understanding what you are seeing, hearing and experiencing around you. Culture experts say that a culture is like an iceberg. What you see and hear is only the tip, but the bulk of the iceberg lies beneath the surface.
It took me about twenty years of living with Americans before I was confident enough to write about Americans as you can see in the book "Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences." I was not just living among the Americans but teaching their college kids. As a teacher, I interact with students all the time, and am very much in the community, interacting with parents, and so on. Yet it was only after about twenty years that I felt I could write about Americans.
It takes years, many years, a lifetime, actually. Go to the links below my video and you will read the testimony of the Black American woman who lives in Tanzania. She is writing after reading my book, saying that if she had read it earlier, she would have avoided frustrations she experienced in Tanzanian culture for fourteen years. Just imagine, she had been there fourteen years, and did not understand certain things in the culture. I have encountered Africans here in the USA who, upon reading my work, regret that they had not read it earlier. For example, an Ethiopian woman who had lived in the USA for twenty years told me that.
The issues you raise, such as how you are perceived and treated by Africans, are exactly the kind of issues I address in the resources I have created. Check out the links below the video and read the testimonies. If you are patient and keep studying the culture, you will change your mind about Africans. You may think that all they want is your money, but that is only what you see on the surface. The real story lies under the surface, and my joy as a cultural consultant is helping people understand that.
Hyu doin , sir . 😅😅😅
@HakimDay-dk61f great, thanks.